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There is nothing like a parade to elicit the proper respect for the military from the populace.

— Irving Kristol

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The major political event of the twentieth century is the death of socialism.

Neo-Conservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea (1995)

An intellectual may be defined as a man who speaks with general authority about a subject on which he has no particular competence.

If you care for the quality of life in our American democracy, then you have to be for censorship.

What rules the world is idea, because ideas define the way reality is perceived.

I have observed over the years that the unanticipated consequences of social action are always more important, and usually less agreeable, than the intended consequences.

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